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on my way to #EVALITA2026 where I’ll present team TiGRO  ‘s work (Stefano Azzeni, Malvina Nissim @gsarti.com) on fallacy detection (btw, we ranked #1) @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

Are you based in Groningen and want to help us evaluate the Generative AI puzzle? 🍫

We are looking for participants of every age between 16 and 60 years old. 📊

Contact us and we will deliver the puzzle and cards to you in person :)

Een chatbot als tutor RUG-docent informatiekunde Rik van Noord, die onderzoek doet naar kunstmatige intelligentie, helpt studenten en middelbare scholieren om taalmodellen als...

Happy #SaferInternetDay! We asked Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Rik van Noord @rug.nl, who researches artificial intelligence, how university and high school students can safely use language models like ChatGPT. Read more 👉 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

What if AI-driven models could help people with language disorders – e.g. with a smartphone app? 🗣️

Researcher Frank Tsiwah (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) is exploring various ways to make this happen. ‘If it can make a single life better, then it will be worth it.’ 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Natural Language Processing How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu...

Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

📣 I'm hiring 📣
Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier"

Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD
📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned!
#HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data?

Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!

Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)

arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768

Benchmarks of linguistic minimal pairs are key for LM evaluation & help us overcome the English-centric bias in NLP research

Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP to meet TurBLiMP, a new benchmark for Turkish, revealing how LLMs deal with free-order, morphologically rich languages

Interested in agent simulations of language change & pragmatic naming behavior?

Come check our poster TODAY (Fri, Nov 7, 12:30 - 13:30) #EMNLP!

Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning) Francesca Padovani1∗ Bastian Bunzeck2∗ Manar Ali2 Omar Momen2 Arianna Bisazza1 Hendrik Buschmeier2 Sina Zarrieß2 1Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen 2CRC 1646 – Linguistic Creativity in Communication, Bielefeld University f.padovani@rug.nl bastian.bunzeck@uni-bielefeld.de

As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.

accepted papers at main conference and findings

accepted papers at TACL and workshops

With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️

Slide showing practical tips about how to choose reinforcement learning strategy between PPO, DPO, and GRPO.

Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social

Interviews with selected candidates will be held on-line between 10th–14th November 2025.

You would be joining a vibrant environment embedded in the 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐂𝐋𝐂𝐆) at the University of Groningen.⁣ You can apply for this position until 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟐 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Dutch local time (CET) .⁣

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉
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We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣

For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘

We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓

#INCREC is looking for a new team member:

Postdoc in #Creativity, #Translation and #Technology.
Come an join the team at University of Groningen!

Applications until 12 October 11:59pm, 2025 Dutch local time (CET) .

All information 👇

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

In this episode, we had a conversation with 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘅𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗮, an experienced literary translator from Scandinavian languages to Catalan, about the translator’s role in-between the author and the reader, meta-creativity and the impact new technologies might have on translation.
Check it out!

S2E08: Meritxell Salvany Balada "A translators main work is not so much to create something but to reproduce it in a way that doesn't crumble"

𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 😍

#creativity #xl8n #MT #literature #INCREC @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social

We’re excited to share a new addition from our lab to the family of language-specific BLiMPs, this time the morphologically rich Turkish language is in the spotlight! 🎊✨

And once again 🎊 a little read for you all to enjoy :)

Check it out !!

Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...

“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”

I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!

🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689